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Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4

Posted by timothy on from the ambitious dept.

sH4RD writes "The 6GHz barrier has been broken by two guys, a little LN2 (liquid nitrogen for those not as chemistry inclined), and an Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) 3.60GHz. Check out some icing and some proof of speed. Better yet take a look at how fast it calculates pi. Also be sure to check out the original announcement."

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  1. Alienware's next product. by Thingummywut · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since Alienware charges $2000 for .4 Ghz of overclocking (with its 4 Ghz OCed processor) with really rich preppies buying them, then this would be worth... $12,000 more than normal?

    I think I can predict Alienware's next product.

  2. Thank Simon Plouffe (Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe) by pkhuong · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BBPFormula.html. It's so much easier with digit extraction: no need for arbitrary precision, fixnums are quite enough!

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  3. Re:Erm... by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. You are an ignorant intel fanboy. Not all CPUs are created equal. The Pentium M beats the crap out of a Pentium IV of the same clock rate. Pentium M is based on Pentium 3. Pentium 3 is known to beat Pentium 4 at the same clock rate, varying from slightly when you compare new P4 to old P3, and dramatically when you compare late P3 to early P4.
    2. your sig is stupid. If anything it should be /mnt/earth or, far more applicable, earth:/ (hopefully not mounted -t nfs.)
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  4. Re:All of that speed... by rainman_bc · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    C'mon. Pi is an irrational number

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